Rieucau, Guillaume; Giraldeau, Luc-Alain - In: Behavioral Ecology 20 (2009) 6, pp. 1217-1222
Animals sample their surrounding environment to collect information, which can be obtained personally or by tracking the behavior of others (i.e., social information). Although social information appears to be generally advantageous, it can also be detrimental and may even conflict with personal...